Xbox One Backward Compatibility update: SIX new Xbox 360 games revealed by Microsoft

Xbox One Backwards Compatibility Update: Five new Xbox 360 Games revealed

XBOX ONE BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY UPDATE:

In the last few minutes Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb has officially announced that Xbox 360 games Assassin's Creed Revelations, Darksiders AND Darksiders 2 are now backwards compatible with the Xbox One.

It follows the leak earlier this morning which suggested that both Assassin's Creed Revelations and Darksiders were the two Xbox 360 games available to Xbox Live Subscribers, as part of the Xbox Games with Gold April 2017 lineup.

Though that hasn't been officially announced just yet, we would imagine that it also practically confirms that the leaked Games with Gold image is legit as well.

While the leaked Games with Gold announcement has also revealed that Assassin's Creed Revelations and Darksiders are also on the way, while not 100% officially announced by Microsoft just yet.

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Xbox One Backwards Compatible games

Xbox One Backward Compatibility allows users to play their favourite Xbox 360 games on the Xbox One.

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There's still no sign of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 joining the Backwards Compatible library, which is still the most requested game by Xbox gamers, with over 210,000 votes in its favour.

Over Christmas, Xbox Head Phil Spencer told fans that the team see the daily requests and fully understand that a lot of people are passionate about seeing the game join the service.

When pushed again on the subject, Spencer also reiterated his lack of answers shouldn't be misconstrued as a lack of caring, before saying "I really want to see this come to BC."

The situation was updated further this week when Stillwell posted to twitter a rather lengthy note which addressed the state of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, but also, the wider processes involved with bringing a game to the backward compatible program.

You can check out Stillwell's post on this separate Daily Star page, as it's too lengthy to distill on this news post.

If you already own any of the backwards compatible games added in the past few days, then they should now show up automatically in your Xbox One game library.

However, if you don't own them or indeed any of the games previously announced as backwards compatible then there's still hope for you.

All you have to do is head over to the Xbox 360 backwards compatibility store on the Xbox store, making it easier than ever to search for and download these classic titles directly on your Xbox One.

So if you're interested in trying out a Xbox 360 classic but don't already own a copy of the game, you can still give it a go like everyone else.

Looking towards the future, Mike Ybarra the Director of Program Management said towards the end of 2016 that this year's new Microsoft console, Project Scorpio, would look to include Backwards compatibility.

And writing on Twitter this week Phil Spencer also provided more details on how the backwards compatibility service would work on Project Scorpio, which has been dubbed Microsoft's most powerful console ever created.

Hopefully, as we edge closer to the release, which many believe will be at the end of the year, we'll learn more about how these services might work.